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Yes that's why they're clogging up the hospitals. If most of them at least had a roof they'd be able to self-manage most of their disorders a lot better. Even if they ultimately wind up back in the hospital it would be easier to discharge them much faster. Home care with a roof is still cheaper than the hospital and would be adequate in sooo many cases, and give so much more space to care for the ones for whom it isn't.
And using drugs in their own house would keep them from having to take enough uppers to stay vigilant for their safety simultaneously with with enough opiates to level that out. They could keep using or do MAT until they're ready to quit and in the meantime they wouldn't be out in the street yelling at passing cars. We have more empty houses than homeless people just put them in em for free.
I said what I said because my face is directly in the issues you're talking about every single night I work and every single one of them would be so much easier to manage if every one of those people just had a roof to go home to. Literally just a roof. Do you know how hard it is to keep a leg wound the size of a grapefruit clean on the street? Even if it's not getting regular dressings at home at least it's not soaking in a mud puddle where the best thing happening to it is maggots.